377 quotes found
“World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.”
“An asteroid or a supervolcano could certainly destroy us, but we also face risks the dinosaurs never saw: An engineered virus, nuclear war, inadvertent creation of a micro black hole, or some as-ye...”
“Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.”
“Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we do not experience it.”
“Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories.”
“Here though, there are no oppressors. No one's forcing you to do this. You willingly tie yourself to these leashes. And you willingly become utterly socially autistic. You no longer pick up on basi...”
“The point is not how we use a tool, but how it uses us.”
“Truly, more than removing the partition between vectors and values, we would have needed to talk about strengthening crisscrossed lacings: an intertwined kind of understanding that would de-ideolog...”
“Technology is crucial to civilization why? Because it helps us make our fate. We don't need God or miracles or the flight of the bumble bee. But it is also crouched and undecidable. It can go eithe...”
“Technology is everything that doesn’t work yet.”
“He had a notebook. He took notes in it. It was always useful. And them Sybil, gods bless her, had brought him this fifteen-function imp which did so many other things, although as far as he could s...”
“There’s no such thing as technology in the singular, only technologies in the plural.”
“It’s become clear that our gadgets give us ever more freedom to do anything our socially isolated little hearts desire—except stop using them.”
“In Technology We Trust. Need to put that on the new hundred-dollar bill.”
“Yahoo .. Yet another hierarchical officious oracle”
“Each year the world Rich lived in felt more and more like a huge electronic haunted house in which digital ghosts and frightened human beings lived in uneasy coexistence.”
“What’s wrong with turning back the clock if the clock is wrong? We need not be slaves to our technologies”
